Arts Impact
1911 SW Campus Drive, #393
Federal Way, WA 98023
Beverly Harding Buehler
Co-Executive Director
Beverly Harding Buehler (she/her/Euro American) – Co-Executive Director – is a visual artist (mixed media collage, children’s book illustration, stained glass and installation work), arts educator and curriculum specialist. She began her teaching career in East Africa in 1981 and has focused on multicultural, anti-racist teaching in and through the arts from then on. Ms. Harding Buehler began work with Arts Impact in 2002 as an artist mentor. She has served as the Director of Arts Impact since 2013.
Grace Washington
Co-Executive Director
Grace A. Washington (Tacoma, WA) is Arts Impact’s Co-Executive Director and leads Creative Impact, a Pre-K through 5th grade arts infused professional learning program for classroom teachers and students. She also leads our fee for service programming and classroom residencies. She has been a professional artist for over 25 years and has taught art infants, children, and adults. She has used art to build confidence and self-esteem with students; taught life drawing at a Seattle’s Cancer Lifeline and collaborated with 397 Northeast Tacoma Elementary students on a special diversity art project she wrote, taught titled “Together We Rise”. Tacoma Art Museum featured the project before it was permanently installed in the school’s Michael T. Washington Library. The library was named after Grace’s son, a former student who was killed in Afghanistan in 2008. Grace has a degree in Child and Family Development, a certificate in computer graphics, and is a graduate of TATLab (Washington State Teaching Artist Training Lab). Grace taught in Tacoma Public Schools (Learning Assistant Program and Emergency Substitute teacher). She has taught in a North Seattle Reggio Emilia inspired preschool as a Atelierista (studio teaching artist) and served as the school’s Interim Co-Assistant Director and Interim Director. The City of Tacoma has purchased several pieces of Grace’s art, and her art has been exhibited in numerous states. Grace started with Arts Impact in 2015 as a visual artist mentor.
Meg Hannan
Operations Manager
Meg Hannan has worked for Arts Impact since 2005 and has held several positions. Meg is currently the Operations Manager and manages payroll, contracts, fee for service quotes, and accounting for all programming. Prior to this position, Meg was Program Manager for our Core and Voices from the Field teacher professional learning programs. As a volunteer (2008-2019), she coordinated the Regional High School Art Show at Puget Sound Educational Service District, Renton, WA. This annual art event showcases over 150 pieces of high school art work from the Puget Sound region. Meg holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Education from the University of Washington as well as a K-8 teaching certificate. In her spare time, Meg enjoys backpacking. She completed the 93-mile hike around Mount Rainier (Wonderland Trail) and the 500-mile Camino Frances pilgrimage in Spain. She is half-way through the Washington sections of the Pacific Crest Trail.
M. Louise McKay
Director of Development & Communications
M. Louise McKay has more than 20 years of experiene working with nonprofits in fundraising, marketing/communications, and organizational development, including TeamChild, The Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas, Hedgebrook, ACT Theatre, and Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas. She is a former educator, consultant, and coach with a practical and academic background in the performing arts and nonprofit management. Hobbies include marriage, parenting, and caring for a menagerie of pets.
Sabrina Chacon-Barajas
Program Manager—Voices from the Field
Sabrina Chacon-Barajas (she/her/hers) has a BA from Seattle Pacific University in Studio Art and a M.Ed with an emphasis in Critical Educational Change and leadership from UW Bothell. Sabrina is an educator and artist creating illustrative profiles of people and diving into the issues and experiences of existing in multicultural spaces and the complexity of identifying with Latinidad. Her own work is exploratory and incorporates multi-media. Sabrina is an educator in formal and informal spaces such as public schools or community events. She works towards liberatory teaching practices to create spaces of critical thought, joy, and celebration of the self and our communities. Sabrina speaks Spanish and empowers her students to speak and write in their language by being transparent in her experience as a second generation person who is more comfortable with Spanglish!
Claudia Villalobos
Program Coordinator—Voices from the Field
Claudia was born in Seattle but spent her early years in Granger, Washington where Claudia embraces beautiful memories of farms and fields, and Strong ties to her Hispanic heritage. However once making the big City move at 5 to Seattle Claudia fell in love with the PNW! She is a hippy at heart! She is a Mother of 2 super Amazing kids! She grew up on Beacon Hill, a diverse neighborhood and attended Rainier Beach High school. On her free time, she enjoys traveling, happy hour’s, art shows, last minute adventures, road trips and dinner with friends and family. her most favorite is PNW Sunrises and Sunsets.
Her love of art started early on as a child and blossomed as an adult. After becoming a mother, she quickly realized teaching art and creating is what gave her peace. She started her very own mobile Art workshops to make art more accessible to children and adults everywhere especially in underserved communities.
Her goal is to artistically impact as many youth as possible, with a deep attention to BIPOC youth.
